Swam Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. House.
Swam Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sheer-pediment-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Swam Farmhouse, Stannington
- OS grid reference
- NZ 213 791
- Coordinates
- 55.10593, -1.66723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swan Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with an early 19th-century extension and a 20th-century porch. It is constructed of squared tooled stone with ashlar dressings, and the porch features rock-faced stone. The roof is made of Welsh slate. The building is two storeys high and has three symmetrical bays. It has a plinth and rusticated quoins. The central flat-roofed porch includes a slit window and a four-panel door with a two-pane overlight on the right side. The original doorway is set within an architrave. On either side of the porch are 12-pane sash windows, and above are 16-pane sashes, all featuring thick glazing bars and set in architraves. The eaves cornice is bold and hollow-chamfered. The gables are coped, and there are stepped-and-corniced stacks at the ends.
To the left, there is a single-storey, two-bay extension with 12-pane sash windows, and the left gable is coped with a stepped-and-banded stack. The left return, above the extension, features a 6-pane Yorkshire sash in the attic. The right return has 12-pane sash windows that were rebuilt around 1960. There is a lower 18th-century wing at the rear, and a brick addition at the back of the 19th-century extension is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Swam Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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